Napoleon and the nose on the Sphinx
The new Ridley Scott movie on Napoleon will revive the idea that his troops shot the nose off the Sphinx as Tony McMahon investigates
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Queen Cleopatra – Netflix provokes a storm!
Netflix has provoked a storm over its new drama documentary series, Queen Cleopatra. In a second article, Tony McMahon answers the critics.
Cleopatra – the fury over her ethnicity
The Netflix drama series Queen Cleopatra has caused a storm over the casting of a black actor but people to need calm down over Cleo’s alleged ethnicity
Abusing the Mummies of Ancient Egypt
Mummies from Ancient Egypt weren’t just unwrapped in the past but featured in ballets, dinner parties, and abused in many ways
Was Tutankhamun buried in the tomb of a queen?
Some believe that the tomb of Tutankhamun was intended for a royal queen hence the feminine imagery that abounds within
Howard Carter – discoverer of Tutankhamun
Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon became global celebrities on discovering the tomb of Tutankhamun – though Carter wasn’t universally popular
Centenary of the Tutankhamun discovery!
2022 will be a hundred years since the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun and two hundred years since the Rosetta Stone was deciphered as Tony McMahon reports
Toppling statues and renaming streets – nothing new
There is a long history of toppling statues and renaming streets and cities and historian Tony McMahon thinks we should vex a lot less about this
Grave robbers through the centuries
Grave robbers have been desecrating tombs throughout history but as Tony McMahon discovers it’s often for very different reasons
Was Moses the Pharaoh Akhenaten?
Tony McMahon went to view 3,000 year old objects made under the Pharaoh Akhenaten that now cannot be viewed because of the Coronavirus